Wordle has taken the world by storm over the course of the last six weeks. If you don’t know what it is, Wordle is an incredibly simple word game you can play for free through your web browser. You have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, and you can only play it once per day. Everyone gets the same word, and you only get one word per day.
Most devs churned out Wordle clones onto the Appstore and Playstore (they got taken down for it), but Twitter user, a very intrepid modder, ghidraninja took it a step further and went about turning Wordle into a playable Game Boy game. Most wouldn’t think about making homages to run on decades-old hardware.
WORDLE is now running on the Game Boy! pic.twitter.com/Zk8aDr7MST
— stacksmashing (@ghidraninja) February 6, 2022
Ghidraninja’s project has been a success, and you can indeed now play their version of Wordle on an original Game Boy. You can play the Game Boy version of the browser game without the classic handheld console, or you can download the ROM and fire it up on an actual Game Boy using a flash cart. It looks pretty neat, but ghidraninja openly admits Game Boy’s Wordle doesn’t have quite as a vast a word roster as the original version.
“I couldn’t fit in a big wordlist of ‘real’ words,” they admit. “Instead I’m using a bloom filter to check (with, unfortunately, a very high error-rate) whether an entered word is one of the 8000 most common English words.”
A nerdy detail: The ROM size is very limited, so I couldn’t fit in a big wordlist of “real” words. Instead I’m using a bloom filter to check (with, admittedly, currently a very high error-rate) whether an entered word is one of the 8000 most common English words ????
— stacksmashing (@ghidraninja) February 6, 2022
This high error-margin can feel like a small price to pay for you nerds who complete your daily Wordle as soon as you wake up in the morning and then have to wait 24 hours before you can scratch your itch and play it again. The best part of this version is that, unlike the word game, it isn’t limited to a single puzzle per day that everyone shares. Instead, you can keep playing for as long as you’d like, as the puzzle will automatically reset to another word when you win or lose one.
Inspiration was this tweet: https://t.co/irH5nMyYQs
And turned out to be a nice Saturday project!
— stacksmashing (@ghidraninja) February 6, 2022
Well, at least someone had fun over the weekend!
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